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    A popular country music night in Cardiff brings fans together to make new friends

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    Local Welsh art projected on station as part of a huge Light of Winter trail

    Author and storyteller launches typewriter-for-hire service in Cardiff market

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    Two chefs to open a restaurant after the decline in Wales’ hospitality industry

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    How Welsh musicians are using social media to keep the spirit of bilingual music alive

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    Training project that aims to make screen sector more accessible gets funding boost

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    Local yoga instructor sees a rise in men embracing yoga classes to improve wellbeing

    ‘Men and women are not built the same’: Fighting for female-friendly fitness gear

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    Netball participation among adults is growing as women seek a sense of community

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    Fibroid advocate takes the stage at Everywoman Festival to raise awareness of this common condition

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    The last act? Wales’ arts sector faces an uncertain future in challenging times

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    Fashion crisis unwrapped: The ‘rental revolution’ for Welsh consumers’ wardrobes

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    ‘Men and women are not built the same’: Fighting for female-friendly fitness gear

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    The last act? Wales’ arts sector faces an uncertain future in challenging times

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    Fashion crisis unwrapped: The ‘rental revolution’ for Welsh consumers’ wardrobes

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Derek Bainton sitting on a stool painting a street in Grangetown, Cardiff, at night
Culture

How lockdown helped bring one Cardiff painter’s work to a new audience

After leaving his academic job last year, lockdown gave local painter and illustrator Derek Bainton the chance to work on passion projects.
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Youngsters keep Welsh traditions alive

A Welsh Folk Dancing Group based in Cardiff sees the participation of young people in traditional Welsh activities as integral to keeping the culture alive.
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Welsh artist exhibits in the pavilion

Never before seen body of work from Welsh artist, Iwan Bala, will be shown in Penarth
Poet Cal Ellis stands holding a copy of his poem 'The Dragon in a Bally'
Culture

‘I’m proud to be from Wales, but I don’t think I’ve got much of a nationalist streak’

Local poet Cal Ellis talks about using the written word to highlight the reality of growing up in Cardiff 
Taylor Edmond is reciting poetry at the COP26 protest
Culture

Young Welsh poet in residence recites poems to make social change in Wales

After reciting poetry at the Global Climate Change Conference, Taylor Edmonds will expand her Writing For Joy initiative to encourage social change in Wales
Culture

Splott artist uses outdoor mural to welcome Afghan refugees in their own language

Local painter Sahar Saki has brought colour and Farsi to Pearl Street and is now selling postcards of her work to raise money for refugees
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Accessible performance film rebels against ‘What you’re told deafness is’

'Not Sorry' by Stephanie Back, explores her experience of becoming deaf at 15 and "rebirth" after discovering British Sign Language.
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Voxpop: Is Harry Potter still relevant?

With the arrival of a Harry Potter shop in Cardiff, is the franchise starting to get a bit riddikulus?
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Culture

National Museum Cardiff invites visitors to question its art in new experimental exhibition

The museum hopes to get audiences looking at its art in a new way through experimenting with the ways in which it displays it
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Cardiff Character: Anthony Rhys

An artist, writer and teacher delves through the depths of the glamorgan archives discovering some of Cardiff's most infamous streets
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